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  • February 2014

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  • Call for next Design Guild Marks

    • 05 February 2014

    Furniture designers have until 19 February to get their entries in to be considered for a 2014 Design Guild Mark.

    Mather & Co starts work on New Olympic Museum

    • 05 February 2014

    Museum and visitor attraction design consultancy Mather & Co has started 2014 on a high note, with its design for the new International Olympic Museum in Lausanne coming to fruition with the opening of the museum.

    Elena Baturina on the BE OPEN India event

    • 05 February 2014

    Philanthropist and businesswoman Elena Baturina, who founded creative think tank BE OPEN, talks about this year's BE OPEN India project, which takes place 11 - 28 February 2014

    Euroshop event to be 'biggest ever'

    • 05 February 2014

    Euroshop returns to Düsseldorf later from 16-20 February 2014 and this year’s offering is set to be another whopper. With more than 2,000 exhibitors occupying 16 halls, and an expected visitor footfall in excess of 100,000, it is no surprise to learn that Euroshop is the largest capital goods trade fair for the retail trade.

    Interview: Mark Ridler

    • 05 February 2014

    Trained as an engineer, the call of his creative interests was too much to resist for Mark Ridler, who moved over to theatre, he tells Jamie Mitchell. Now design director of lighting design practice BDP, his unusual background has led to some outstanding work

    Park life: Veronica Simpson considers car park design

    • 04 February 2014

    Should car parks be written off as dinosaurs of a bygone, car-centric age, or can they be refurbished, repurposed or reinvented to become urban assets rather than eyesores? Veronica Simpson goes in search of answers, and unearths some surprisingly attractive and innovative solutions

    Blueprint for the Future: considering graphene

    • 04 February 2014

    In the first of a new series looking at the very latest materials and their likely impact on architecture, design and the wider world, Chris Lefteri turns his attention to graphene. Chris Lefteri is a designer and has written seven books about new materials and their applications

    Vehovar & Jauslin design cloud-like canopy for Swiss bus station

    • 04 February 2014

    As part of the construction of Theo Hotz’s new railway station in the northern Swiss town of Aarau, the station forecourt and bus station have been given a new cloud-like canopy

    Martin Creed: What’s the Point of It? - review

    • 04 February 2014

    London's Hayward Gallery presents a major retrospective of the work of Martin Creed, who won the Turner Prize in 2001